At the continued Mobile World Congress 2024 (MWC 2024) going down in Barcelona, Spain, smartphone big Oppo showcased a brand new product that’s nonetheless in a prototype stage. Called the Air Glass 3, the augmented actuality eyewear goals to infuse synthetic intelligence (AI) into Oppo’s product lineup, whereas opening the doorways to the world of augmented actuality. Indeed, this appears to be Oppo’s wager on augmented actuality and AI after Apple lastly launched its Vision Pro headset earlier this yr for the US market.
Oppo’s Air Glass 3 is not a completely new idea from Oppo. The Chinese smartphone big showcased an identical idea referred to as the Air Glass with a singular cicada wing design and a micro-projector again in 2021 at its INNO Day convention in Shenzhen. The firm had additionally showcased the Air Glass 2 at MWC 2023. Ideas appeared to have advanced previously couple of years into what has been presently showcased at the continued MWC 2024.
The Air Glass 3 eyewear appears to be like like a daily pair of glasses however has a built-in show that lets customers view digital content material pasted onto real-world settings. The augmented actuality bit can be utilized for navigation and even to view incoming messages or calls.
Interacting with the wearable occurs each through voice and contact. Oppo claims to have efficiently used its personal homegrown massive language mannequin (LLM) referred to as AndesGPT to energy its voice assistant and the mandatory generative AI options. The voice assistant for now could be solely out there in China, however can carry out fundamental info searches and have a correct conversations to help the wearer.
Another option to work together with the Oppo Air Glass 3 wearable is through contact. According to Oppo, customers will be capable to contact the body stalks on the perimeters to work together and navigate with onscreen content material which is seen on the full-colour show. The eyewear weighs 50 grams and the show has a peak brightness of greater than 1,000 nits. On the body are 4 microphones to help with voice capabilities and audio system for audio output as properly.
More just lately, Meta additionally launched a pair of sensible sun shades in collaboration with Ray-Ban. While these seem much like those introduced by Oppo, they depend on a digital camera and AI to seize images or video and are primarily designed to stream no matter a person is trying at with the glasses, utilizing ‘Hey Meta’ instructions. What the Ray-Ban Meta sensible glasses lack compared to the Oppo’s sensible eyewear is a show because it solely depends on voice instructions and prompts for management.
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